From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 17 02:22:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E18E3EF for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 02:22:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from w3.lemis.com (w3.lemis.com [208.86.224.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB6AD3E for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 02:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (1032.x.rootbsd.net [208.86.224.149]) by w3.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A9C3B79C; Fri, 17 May 2013 02:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D98B6F74D1; Fri, 17 May 2013 12:22:03 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 12:22:03 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Zaphod Beeblebrox Subject: Re: tape (sa0) on sparc64 ? Message-ID: <20130517022203.GX77641@eureka.lemis.com> References: <0D672BB1-1928-4F7A-BF72-CA7EE15D0563@gid.co.uk> <20130517003058.GW77641@eureka.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Wn0J+vu9+NMIXK57" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5346-1370 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: FreeBSD Hackers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 02:22:11 -0000 --Wn0J+vu9+NMIXK57 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 20:56:53 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 19:56:14 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bob Bishop wrote: >>>> On 16 May 2013, at 21:51, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> > [about my tape drive not working] > >> The obvious question: can you write tapes and read them back? My >> experience with DDS tapes was of extreme unreliability. The age >> doesn't make things any easier. > > Well... therein lies my other suspicion. I don't have any DDS4 tapes to > try writing, but the DDS3 tapes I have fail to write. > > ... but they don't even try. The tape spools up when inserted and "mt > offl" works (ejects the tape) and the drive doesn't indicate any error at > this point --- but it doesn't even try to start moving for either read or > write. You'd expect at least a message, wouldn't you? It's difficult to say whether this is bitrot or taperot. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua --Wn0J+vu9+NMIXK57 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlGVlEsACgkQIubykFB6QiOyUwCfaHDGXB5Wllmkz6KOI8SrtLGk pUsAn12T8+JnSYDnf8mqebNLMRSUeJst =pbj2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Wn0J+vu9+NMIXK57--